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Monday, 19 July 2010 16:09 |
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VOLUME COLLECTION
Project curated by Nemanja Cvijanović
23rd July – 8th August 2010
Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation
Palazzetto Tito, Dorsoduro 2826, Venice
Opening 23rd July at 6.30pm
The VOLUME COLLECTION project brings together the works of a group of contemporary artists whose artistic ideas are represented or implemented through the book medium, either in its real – printed – manifestation or in various other forms: the book-object, book-work, book-theoretical object, video, web-art, performance, action, conceptual photography or painting.
The artistic practices represented in this project take on a precise position, showing a critical commitment towards the dominant political/economic “constellation” in contemporary societies and/or in art theory.
The artists invited to take part are:
Eva e Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.org, Ayreen Anastas, Art Fun Club, Milijana Babić, Marčelo Brajnović, Petar Brajnović, Tomislav Brajnović, Ana Maria Bresciani, Vuk Ćosić, Igor Eškinja, Claire Fontaine, Rene Gabri, Igor Grubić, Grupa ABS, Grupa OHO, Group of contributors to The 2007 Almanac of The Political Art, Sasha Huber, Joseph Kosuth, Siniša Labrović, Marko Marković, Vlado Martek, Ohad Meromi, Luis Molina-Pantin, Antoni Muntadas, Kristina Norman, Tanja Ostojić, Goran Petercol, Cesare Pietroiusti, Progettozero+, Gastón Ramírez Feltrin, Mladen Stilinović, ŠKART, Slaven Tolj, Goran Trbuljak
VOLUME COLLECTION will present:
A protest performance-action against the state taxes applied to the sale of books; a manual of offerings of the "schnell-kurs" of various professional criminals; conceptual posters presented in book form; books of an anarchic/religious nature; book-diaries with the mapping of relationships; a theoretical book-object on the key aspects of the context of art and its functions; a presentation of “flying books”; a review of the “Testimoni di Duchamp”; a book containing 100 proposals for the implementation of impossible art projects, from the irrelevant to the useless; a photographic installation featuring the design of the front cover of theory books; one of the 50 underground catalogues produced by hand in the ‘70s; conceptual paintings from Pop and theory books; videos on the reading and distribution of books and, among the other projects, a theatre piece performed without an audience, transformed into a book-document.
Performance:
“I testimoni di Duchamp” (“Duchamp’s Witnesses”) by Milijana Babić
23rd July, at 7pm
Campo San Barnaba, Venice
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Friday, 02 July 2010 15:20 |
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LUSH LIFE is an exhibition curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez-Chahoud which takes place at nine Lower East Side (LES) galleries: Collette Blanchard Gallery, Eleven Rivington, Invisible-Exports, Lehmann Maupin, On Stellar Rays, Salon 94, Scaramouche, Sue Scott Gallery, and Y Gallery. LUSH LIFE adopts Richard Price’s 2008 novel to title and organize the exhibition. The novel is set in the contemporary LES and through a murder investigation exposes the dynamically changing community of the neighborhood, which despite its evolution retains a ghostly and vital link to its layered past. The deep and varied history of the LES now includes the LES galleries as new community members, and Price’s novel provides a potent vehicle for the consideration of community as voices compete for, ignore and occasionally share the same physical and conceptual space.
The galleries will host concurrent exhibitions with each exhibition reflecting the idea of one of the nine chapters in the book. The curators selected one artist from each gallery to participate in the exhibition and solicited from each of them one additional artist recommendation of an artist not from one of the nine participating galleries (nine total recommendations). The curators then supplemented this base group of eighteen artists to complete nine exhibitions, ranging in size from three to twelve artists. LUSH LIFE will be the present for what will become a living ghost to the future form into which the LES will inevitably morph.
The exhibition schedule varies slightly at each gallery with the earliest installation being June 17 and the latest closing being August 13. See gallery specific schedule below. There will be a collective opening of all participating galleries on Thursday, July 8th from 6 – 9 pm.
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Sue Scott Gallery
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Chapter One: Whistle
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June 17 – August 1
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On Stellar Rays
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Chapter Two: Liar
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June 23 – August 1
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Invisible-Exports
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Chapter Three: First Bird (A Few Butterflies)
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June 25 – July 31
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Lehmann Maupin
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Chapter Four: Let It Die
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July 8 – August 13
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Y Gallery
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Chapter Five: Want Cards
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July 8 – July 25
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Collette Blanchard Gallery
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Chapter Six: The Devil You Know
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July 8 – August 13
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Salon 94
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Chapter Seven: Wolf Tickets
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June 24 – July 30
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Scaramouche
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Chapter Eight: 17 Plus 25 Is 32
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July 8 – August 7
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Eleven Rivington
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Chapter Nine: She'll Be Apples
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July 15 – August 13
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Artists: Alice O'Malley, Alisha Kerlin, Amy Longenecker-Brown, Carol Irving, Chakaia Booker, Charles Sabba, Christoph Draeger, Claudia Weber, Coco Fusco, Cynthia Lin, Dana Frankfort, Dana Levy, Dani Leventhal, David Kramer, David Shapiro, Derrick Adams, Elisabeth Subrin, Erik Benson, Ezra Johnson, Gail Thacker, Gina Magid, Ishmael Randall Weeks, Jackie Gendel, Jackie Saccoccio, Jayson Keeling, Jessica Dickinson, Joanne Greenbaum, Jonathan VanDyke, Jose Lerma, Judi Werthein, Justen Ladda, Kai Schiemenz / Iris Fluegel, Karen Heagle, Karina Aguilera Skvirsky, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Leslie Hewitt, Manuel Acevedo, Mario Ybarra Jr., Matthew Weinstein, Melissa Gordon, Nanna Debois Buhl, Nicolas Di Genova, Nina Lola Bachhuber, Olivier Babin, Patrick Lee, Patty Chang, Paul Gabrielli, Paul Pagk, Paul Pfeiffer, Pedro Barbeito, Rashid Johnson, Robert Beck, Robert Lazzarini, Robert Melee, Robin Graubard, Rudy Shepherd, Scott Hug, Tim Davis, Tommy Hartung, Xaviera Simmons, Yashua Klos
We are grateful to Richard Price and the vitality of his novel.
Sue Scott Gallery, 1 Rivington Street, www.suescottgallery.com
On Stellar Rays, 133 Orchard Street, onstellarrays.com
Invisible-Exports, 14A Orchard Street, www.invisible-exports.com
Lehmann Maupin, 201 Chrystie Street, www.lehmannmaupin.com
Y Gallery, 355 A Bowery Street, www.ygallerynewyork.com
Collette Blanchard Gallery, 26 Clinton Street, www.colletteblanchard.com
Salon 94, 1 Freeman Alley, www.salon94.com
Scaramouche, 52 Orchard Street, www.scaramoucheart.com
Eleven Rivington, 11 Rivington Street, www.elevenrivington.com
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Tuesday, 15 June 2010 03:56 |
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Curated by María Inés Rodríguez
26 June - 12 October 2010
Moderno salvaje, 2005-2007. DVD HD (loop aprox. 12 min). Edition of 3
The Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla and Leon, MUSAC is pleased to present the firts monography about the venezuelan artists Alexander Apóstol: Tropical Modernity.
The current book project aims to cover the body of work of the Venezuelan artist Alexander Apóstol, who has developed a research project on the repercussions of Latin American modernism in the contemporary city. Through his photography and video work, which he has been producing since the 90s, he seeks to demonstrate the failure of this model. MUSAC presents a bilingual (English/Spanish) retrospective monograph published by María Inés Rodrígez, Chief Conservator of MUSAC.
The book will be a profusely illustrated catalogue raisonné accompanied by three critical texts by Cuauhtémoc Medina (Mexico. Art critic), Julieta González (Venezuela. Associate Curator of Latin American Art at the Tate Modern of London) and Juan Herreros (Spain. Architect. Professor at Princeton and Columbia universities. He is currently building the Munch Museum in Oslo.)
The installation for the MUSAC’s Showcase Project is generated from this publication, conceived by Apóstol as a visual aid for it. In the artist’s own words: “The function of a showcase is to exhibit art objects, natural products or commercial items with security and without damage.” Thus, the project for the MUSAC Showcases will consist in exhibiting the image of the sliding doors of the house that Gio Ponti designed in Caracas in 1957, translating into colours his idea about the dynamic and effervescent elements in tropical modernity. In Apóstol’s words: “This concept shows itself to be altered and distorted in Venezuela 60 years on, where the economy that allowed that growth was not accompanied by social maturity. The tension of gaining access, behind an impermeable showcase, to a space of doors that do not open, is the impossibility of existing from that very modernity, where needs and frustration become one and the same word, yet the generous tropical orchids still remain.”
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Wednesday, 09 June 2010 14:34 |
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The New Décor
19 June - 5 September 2010
Curated by Ralph Rugoff, Director of the Hayward Gallery, the exhibition draws on artists from around the world, but what unites them is their ability to transform objects we associate with the everyday – a bed, a shelf, a lamp – into something uncanny and compelling.
The New Décor is an international survey of some 30 contemporary artists whose work explores interior design as a means of engaging with changes in contemporary culture. Liberated from the constraints of functionality, artists in the exhibition present objects that look as though they could belong in a fantastical model home, such as a bed inspired by a Los Angeles freeway overpass or a sci-fi inspired chandelier. By dismantling the borders between interior decoration, sculpture and installation art, these artists reinvent the familiar forms of furniture and lighting to reflect on the social, historical and psychological narratives embedded in these everyday objects.
http://www.haywardgallery.org.uk/
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